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Diary entry by Schenker January 15, 1899

[The group of six entries around the Dreyfus affair below are all undated as to day and month. The date arbitrarily assigned to them above is not intended to imply their having been written at that time, but only to maintain the order of the items in Series A. See footnotes for possible individual datings.]

Ser. A, {8}

⇧ Affaire Dreifus (99)
Das „Geheimdossier“ des Christentums ‒ die christlich‒katholischen Dogmen. 1 [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 2]

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⇧ Der Jude (99)
Ein Bauer, der Haus u. Hof sein Eigen nennt, begreift freilich die Existenzberechtigung eines anderen Menschen nicht, der nicht, wie er selbst, Haus u. Hof hat, u. sei er Minister o. dgl. Haus u. Hof eben ein soziales Mindestmaß nach seiner Vorstellung . . . Auch der jüdischen Nation fehlt sozusagen Haus u. Hof u. daher bestreiten ihr alle übrigen Nationen aus dem Grunde einer so natür ⇧ bäuer ⇧ lich-oberflächlichen Anschauung die Existenzberechtigung in dieser Welt. Als ob das „geistige Eigentum“ der Bibel u.s.w. nicht den materiellen Besitz dieses oder jenes Fleckchens Erde mehr als nötig wettmachen würde! Europa ‒ ein großer Bauernlümmel noch im XIX. Jahrh! [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7, heavily edited]

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Ser. A, p. 8 bc ⇧ Der Scharfsinn eines liebenden Weibes bleibt nie ohne das Geleite der Güte. [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7]

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⇧ Erdbeben ‒ böse Träume unserer lieben guten Erde . . . . 2 [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7]

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[in margin:] ⇧ 1899. ⇧ Am Ende des XIX. Jahrh. verbrennen gut katholische Franzosen den Juden Dreyfus auf dem Scheiterhaufen von Meineiden! [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7]

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⇧ Sich, wie es die franz. Nation tut, „la grande nation“ zu nennen, ist das vielleicht weniger eitel, als sich für das „auserwählte Volk Gottes“ zu halten, wie es die Juden tun?! [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7, heavily edited]

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© Transcription Ian Bent, 2017
[The group of six entries around the Dreyfus affair below are all undated as to day and month. The date arbitrarily assigned to them above is not intended to imply their having been written at that time, but only to maintain the order of the items in Series A. See footnotes for possible individual datings.]

Ser. A, {8}

⇧ The Dreyfus Affair (99)
The "secret dossier" of Christendom ‒ the Christian-Catholic dogmas. 1 [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 2]

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⇧ The Jew (99)
A farmer who calls hearth and home his own admittedly does not understand how another man ‒ who, unlike himself, does not have hearth and home ‒ justifies his existence, and, even if he is a minster or someone of similar rank, imagines hearth and home to be a social minimum. ... The Jewish nation, too, is lacking in hearth and home, so to speak; and accordingly all other nations deny her, on the grounds of such a superficially natural ⇧ peasant-like ⇧ outlook, the justification for her existence in this world. As if the "spiritual property" of the Bible etc would not more than necessarily compensate for the material possession of this or that tiny speck of earth! Europe ‒ a big peasant ruffian still in the 19th century! [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7, heavily edited]

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Ser. A, p. 8 bc ⇧ The astuteness of a loving wife never goes without the escort of kindness. [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7]

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⇧ Earthquakes ‒ bad dreams of our dear good earth ... 2 [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7]

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[in margin:] ⇧ 1899. ⇧ At the end of the 19th century, good Catholic Frenchmen are burning the Jew, Dreyfus, at the stake of perjuries! [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7]

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⇧ To call oneself, as does the French nation, la grande nation ‒ is that any the less presumptuous than to consider oneself "God's chosen people," as the Jews do?! [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7, heavily edited]

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© Translation Ian Bent, 2017
[The group of six entries around the Dreyfus affair below are all undated as to day and month. The date arbitrarily assigned to them above is not intended to imply their having been written at that time, but only to maintain the order of the items in Series A. See footnotes for possible individual datings.]

Ser. A, {8}

⇧ Affaire Dreifus (99)
Das „Geheimdossier“ des Christentums ‒ die christlich‒katholischen Dogmen. 1 [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 2]

*

⇧ Der Jude (99)
Ein Bauer, der Haus u. Hof sein Eigen nennt, begreift freilich die Existenzberechtigung eines anderen Menschen nicht, der nicht, wie er selbst, Haus u. Hof hat, u. sei er Minister o. dgl. Haus u. Hof eben ein soziales Mindestmaß nach seiner Vorstellung . . . Auch der jüdischen Nation fehlt sozusagen Haus u. Hof u. daher bestreiten ihr alle übrigen Nationen aus dem Grunde einer so natür ⇧ bäuer ⇧ lich-oberflächlichen Anschauung die Existenzberechtigung in dieser Welt. Als ob das „geistige Eigentum“ der Bibel u.s.w. nicht den materiellen Besitz dieses oder jenes Fleckchens Erde mehr als nötig wettmachen würde! Europa ‒ ein großer Bauernlümmel noch im XIX. Jahrh! [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7, heavily edited]

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Ser. A, p. 8 bc ⇧ Der Scharfsinn eines liebenden Weibes bleibt nie ohne das Geleite der Güte. [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7]

*

⇧ Erdbeben ‒ böse Träume unserer lieben guten Erde . . . . 2 [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7]

*

[in margin:] ⇧ 1899. ⇧ Am Ende des XIX. Jahrh. verbrennen gut katholische Franzosen den Juden Dreyfus auf dem Scheiterhaufen von Meineiden! [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7]

*

⇧ Sich, wie es die franz. Nation tut, „la grande nation“ zu nennen, ist das vielleicht weniger eitel, als sich für das „auserwählte Volk Gottes“ zu halten, wie es die Juden tun?! [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7, heavily edited]

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© Transcription Ian Bent, 2017
[The group of six entries around the Dreyfus affair below are all undated as to day and month. The date arbitrarily assigned to them above is not intended to imply their having been written at that time, but only to maintain the order of the items in Series A. See footnotes for possible individual datings.]

Ser. A, {8}

⇧ The Dreyfus Affair (99)
The "secret dossier" of Christendom ‒ the Christian-Catholic dogmas. 1 [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 2]

*

⇧ The Jew (99)
A farmer who calls hearth and home his own admittedly does not understand how another man ‒ who, unlike himself, does not have hearth and home ‒ justifies his existence, and, even if he is a minster or someone of similar rank, imagines hearth and home to be a social minimum. ... The Jewish nation, too, is lacking in hearth and home, so to speak; and accordingly all other nations deny her, on the grounds of such a superficially natural ⇧ peasant-like ⇧ outlook, the justification for her existence in this world. As if the "spiritual property" of the Bible etc would not more than necessarily compensate for the material possession of this or that tiny speck of earth! Europe ‒ a big peasant ruffian still in the 19th century! [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7, heavily edited]

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Ser. A, p. 8 bc ⇧ The astuteness of a loving wife never goes without the escort of kindness. [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7]

*

⇧ Earthquakes ‒ bad dreams of our dear good earth ... 2 [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7]

*

[in margin:] ⇧ 1899. ⇧ At the end of the 19th century, good Catholic Frenchmen are burning the Jew, Dreyfus, at the stake of perjuries! [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7]

*

⇧ To call oneself, as does the French nation, la grande nation ‒ is that any the less presumptuous than to consider oneself "God's chosen people," as the Jews do?! [draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 7, heavily edited]

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© Translation Ian Bent, 2017

Footnotes

1 A "secret dossier" of evidence regarding Dreyfus's alleged treason had been compiled in the fall of 1894 by General Mercier and Colonel Sandherr. It was in June 1899 that Dreyfus's 1895 guilty verdict was annulled, and he was released from Devil's Island to return to France. His second court marshall took place in August‒September of 1899. This was covered verbatim ("Der Proceß in Rennes") in the opening pages of the Neue freie Presse from August 6 to the second guilty verdict on September 10, and his subsequent pardon was covered on September 20 and 21. The "geheimes Dossier" was mentioned many times, especially on September 8 and 9. It is thus quite likely that Schenker wrote this brief entry within that time-frame.

2 Several earthquakes were reported in the Neue freie Presse in 1899: June 19 in Linz, July 20 in Rome, and September 18 in Laibach (Ljubljana). Morover, major earthquakes occurred at Yakutat Bay (8.2) in Alaska on September 10, and at Ceram (7.8) in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) on September 30. It is impossible to know whether Schenker's aphorism was prompted by any particular newspaper report.